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Sean Muller, online Zoom talk on assessing and training Perceptual skills in hitting sports Posted 27 May 2020

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Soccer Pathways Project for Girls NOW LAUNCHED Posted 13 Mar 2020

Please visit the PARTICIPATE page for more details on this survey based study.
NASPSPA, in Vancouver June 11th- 14th 2020 for researchers and coaches ONLINE Posted 18 Feb 2020
NASPSPA will now be ONLINE, June 11th - 14th 2020. This is a conference for people interested in sport psychology, motor control and motor learning (skill acquisition), motor development and many things in between (expert performance, coaching, movement analytics).Please see website for more details: https://www.naspspa.com/2020-conference/
SCAPPS is going to be in Vancouver October 17th-19th Posted 01 Oct 2019

SCAPPS Vancouver is at the Marriott Pinnacle Hotel, downtown Vancouver.All information about the conference can be found on the conference website (https://www.scapps.org/vancouver-2019/).Professors Alan Kingstone (Psychology, UBC) and Joan Duda (Leeds University, UK) will be the keynote speakers
Congratulations Brennan Chan on your MSc Posted 19 Aug 2019
Brennan graduated from the lab. early August 2019 and is now starting Physiotherapy at UBC. We wish you all the best Brennan. Brennan was studying how physical and perceptual experiences shape action prediction. Through manipulations to a weight worn in practice, or worn in prediction, Brennan showed evidence that weights can bias judgements and also that this bias is only evident when improvement is mediated by physical practice experiences.
Upcoming FEPSAC conference July 15th, Muenster, Germany Posted 27 May 2019
Perceptual-motor expertise Symposium This symposium will cover emerging topics and new trends that are likely to play an important role in future research in perceptual-motor expertise. Prominent international speakers including:
New research on dyad learning free download Posted 14 May 2019

We are happy to announce a new publication in Human Movement Science titled: Manipulations to practice organization of golf putting skills through interleaved matched or mismatched practice with a partner.This is a paper that was part of April's PhD thesis. Congratulations April!  
interview with Michelle Grady (Kin communications) for UBC Posted 17 Apr 2019
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Dr Hodges on the value of effortful practice.
Congratulations Dr April Karlinsky Posted 23 Mar 2019
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April successfully defended her PhD defence Friday March 22nd. Well done April! We wish you all the best in your post-doc position at the University of Toronto and in your future career. 
New publication (and free download) Posted 14 Mar 2019
Please click this link to receive a free download of our newest research on women's soccer (unitl May 3rd 2019). This work has just been published in the Psychology of Sport & Exercise (Hendry, Ford, Williams & Hodges); titled:

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